Best Facebook Connect Experience Yet

An upcoming game called “Prototype” recently launched their promotional site with facebook connect baked into the experience.

Once you log in, it takes a few moments to log into your account but then pulls in profile data and your photos and begins to integrate them into the game trailer… sounds elementary but go see your personalized [...]

Hulu Continues Its Takeover Of My Life

When Hulu was first announced, I was hugely critical of the hybrid startup/corporate mashup created by Universal and NBC but I was quickly proven wrong by its great interface and huge library of TV Shows.  The site has done an amazing job of providing great, fresh content with minimal hiccups in the service.
Well today, Hulu [...]

The Week of My Browser War.

This is just a quick reminder that if you are still using Internet Explorer 6, please for the love of God go update to either Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. I have spent my week trying to fix browser compatibility issues on 3 websites I’ve been working on day and night and all work [...]

The Village Idiot

In case you haven’t seen the recent exchange between TechCrunch and some delusional pseudo-attorney, be sure to check it out and get a hearty laugh for the day.
Basically, some photographer took a picture of Ashton Kutcher and someone linked to it in a comment left on TechCrunch. Apparently, the photographer and her little crony [...]

The ZunePhone? (a sneak peek!)

This parody of the iPhone has come out amid the long-running rumors that Microsoft is developing a new Zune phone in order to compete with the iPhone. I found it to be hilarious, though I must admit: the Zune has a few really cool features that just need some market time and development before they [...]

3rd Generation iPod Nano Gets All The Bad Genes

 UPDATE: Today, Apple debuted this next-gen model of the nano which is very similar to the one pictured below.  In addition to the new nano, Apple also released an ‘iPod Classic’, ‘iPod Touch’, as well as slashed the price of the iPhone by $200.  Check it out at the Apple website.
Engadget has leaked photos of [...]

Microsoft’s Tafiti Brings Back The Revolution

UPDATE: 1) Embedded video and added citation 2) Added to described feature set (Tree View) -ac
Microsoft has released a beta version of its newest search feature: Tafiti. Essentially, this is a visual search tool built on Microsoft Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight technology: rather than just listing out our search results, Tafiti creates an [...]

The e-President?

According to Mashable, a new poll released by Global Market Insite (GMI) shows astonishing results regarding the impact of social networks on the upcoming presidential election.
17% of respondents said they had looked at a candidate’s profile on some social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, and 53% of them said they were more likely [...]

Fight the Man: Facebook Edition

(UPDATE: post edited to include Mashable source citation and category links)
As social networking sites increase in popularity, more and more businesses are striving to maintain worker productivity by simply blocking access to sites such as Facebook and MySpace. This week, an Australian firm released a study claiming that Facebook usage costs Australian businesses $4 [...]

Networking your ‘Social Flow’

The current development of social networking tools focuses on those people you already know (unless you happen to venture off into the wild blue, looking for random people to meet on MySpace), and most sites focus on a certain subset of the people you encounter in your life. [...]